Public Sector Employment In Scotland Statistics For 4th Quarter 2021
Statistics based on administrative records and surveys of individual public sector bodies carried out by the Scottish Government and the Office for National Statistics (ONS). This is a snapshot of employment as at December 2021.
2. Public Sector Employment by Devolved and Reserved Responsibility; Headcount
The devolved public sector headcount was 3.0% higher and the reserved public sector was 1.2% higher as at December 2021 compared with December 2020.
Devolved Civil Service saw the largest percentage increase (13.0%) in the Devolved public sector, while Other Public Bodies had the largest percentage decrease (-2.5%).
In the Reserved public sector, Armed Forces saw the largest percentage increase (3.1%), while Other Public Sector decreased by -0.8%.
The devolved public sector covers those bodies which are the responsibility of the Scottish Government or Scottish Parliament while the reserved public sector in Scotland covers those bodies for which the UK Government has ministerial responsibility.
Source: Public Sector Employment in Scotland, Quarter 4 2021
Changes in the devolved and reserved public sector are explored in more detail in sections 3 and 4 respectively.
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